On 19th June 2025, the New York State Legislature passed the Responsible AI Evaluation for Frontier Models Act (RAISE Act), the first comprehensive state-level AI safety regulation in the United States, which applies to high-capability AI systems defined as 'frontier models' that may have potentially harmful impacts and
The United States Senate voted 99-1 to strike down the proposed state AI regulation moratorium after 4 a.m. on July 1, 2025, which had originally been included in President Trump's tax cut legislation. The proposal initially sought a 10-year ban on state AI laws, later reduced to
A federal judge has ruled that Character.AI chatbots do not currently enjoy First Amendment protections in the United States. On May 21, 2025, Judge Anne Conway rejected Character Technologies' defense in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a 14-year-old boy's suicide, allowing Florida mother Megan Garcia'
Anthropic introduced a custom set of AI models for US national security customers on June 5, 2025, which are already deployed by agencies at the highest level of security operations. The "Claude Gov" models were built based on direct government feedback to address real-world operational needs while undergoing
Data centers form the backbone of the digital ecosystem, and their geographical distribution provides a significant strategic advantage to the United States. The United States hosts 45.6% of the world's 11,800 data centers, far exceeding countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom (4.4% each)
The United States Copyright Office (USCO) released a 108-page "pre-publication" report on May 9, 2025, addressing the unauthorised use of copyrighted materials for training generative AI systems. The report represents the final instalment of the Office's three-part series examining the intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright
South Korea announced on April 15, 2025, an increase in its semiconductor support package to ₩33 trillion ($23.25 billion), representing a ₩7 trillion ($4.9 billion) rise from the ₩26 trillion framework unveiled last year. The Finance Ministry stated that the "aggressive fiscal investment plan" was designed
The White House of the United States issued two new memoranda on April 3, 2025, providing guidance to federal agencies on the responsible use and procurement of artificial intelligence (AI), replacing the previous guidance of the Biden administration while maintaining its fundamental structures. The new guidelines, designated M-25-21 and M-25-22,
A peculiar case shook the New York justice system on 26 March 2025, when plaintiff Jerome Dewald attempted to be represented by a digital avatar created by artificial intelligence in an employment dispute. The judges immediately recognised the situation and intervened decisively when the non-existent "legal representative" appearing
Brendan Carr, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), delivered a sharp critique of the European Union’s digital regulation, particularly the Digital Services Act (DSA), during a speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 3 March 2025. Carr accused the DSA of restricting free speech,
On 13 March 2025, OpenAI submitted a comprehensive proposal package to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) for the United States’ forthcoming Artificial Intelligence Action Plan. The company’s document clearly advocates for maintaining U.S. AI dominance, while emphasising that Chinese advancements, particularly the emergence
